turkish and saudi fight is said to have been captured it didn't side syria helping the rebels to fight against president assad but all of this in a conflict that now sees more civil servants targeted for simply being employed by the government. three years of behind bars plus the demand of prosecution as the trial of the headline grabbing pussy riot is draws to a close right here in moscow. and tolerance is put to the test in belgium as a candidate with mental health problems or runs for public office however critics fear it's nothing more than a publicist. it

is just after five pm moscow time this is arts he lives with me rule received shy syria says its forces have captured a group of military officers from turkey and saudi arabia in the flashpoint city of aleppo where the group is thought have been running rebel combat operations against the syrian army the area in northern syria has been the scene of deadly fighting after rebels moved in from the outskirts last month earlier reports suggested the opposition has started to receive its first heavy weaponry from foreign allies turkey and saudi arabia was already paying salaries for those fighting against president assad and his audience oksana boyko reports from syria even those who are not involved in the country's standoff are living in constant fear for their lives . here in. the area but even by attempting to get it through. since president assad will be watching over those working here it's not

a political statement rather a sign that that company belongs to the state your design is now becoming a death mark for an increasing number of state employees. this call in the middle of the night cost here my brother. was one of syria's most experienced civil pilots u.s. educated more than twenty thousand hours around the globe he was coming home from the airport when gunmen attacked his car. radical islam. is the worst enemy of radical islam when you were rounded incapable of using your age you're trying to estimate what's going on. his brother a plastic surgeon also received. their family belongs to the alloway it's the same religious group as assad but they were never politically active. you said the way

documents confirm syria's armed opposition has a hitlist we scientists engineers doctors and civil servants on it. under the mop what started as a battle against the regime now increasingly looks like a battle against the syrian state with around a million and a half of the country's civil servants are becoming targets doctors teachers many simple workers have all been kidnapped or assassinated for simply doing their work any government in the world where they seem a credit cannot has two distinct groups of people working for a political force whose job is to keep the ruling party in power and civil servants to make sure that streets are cleaned and hospitals are running and in syria regardless of that political affiliation civil servants are being targeted as assad sympathizers in damascus hospitals window blinds is permanently drawn now because of the scorching heat the fear of snipers a local doctor was kidnapped on his way from work

a few months ago his family hasn't heard from him since his colleagues are now afraid of prevailing the identities. of. all the syrian people are in danger children the elderly farm workers civil servants doctors and scientists there are no exceptions over the fact that my life and the lives of the syrian people are a true it makes me tremble with fear along with fears for their safety syrian civil servants also have to deal with a much higher workload many now put in sixty hour weeks with barely a day off due to inflation their salaries have devalued as have their lives so i am not surprised to hear that some groups within the free syrian army are targeting those people who are trying to make life better or orderly because at the end of the day if things get back to normal they will lose any support they will lose any attention from the media from the security it is in the interests. at least some

factions in the opposition to make things worse for people so that those people who are the silent majority join in the fights and round of wild attacks against they don't situations carry on the high sentences and promptly condemned as terrorism yet in syria for the sake of ousting one man millions of lives up to the line it's not boycott ard see democracy syria. and oksana and her crew are traveling all around syria bringing are you and all of us to the latest via twitter feed yourself i discuss things on what's going on by members of the opposite ends of the country's political spectrum you can check out the analysis by the reactions of course the incoming streaming comments. this is our teen our prosecutors have demanded three year jail sentences for members of the controversial feminist punk band pussy riot who station and put in protest stand in russia's main cathedral where the women are on trial accused of inciting religious

hatred now the defense is asking for a full pardon in the case that scores a storm not only among the russian public but also a broad party's picture of it takes up the story though i should advise you at first though the reporting to its images of a sexual nature. it's the trial that's gripped the global attention three members of the group collective pussy riot choose to hooliganism after taking part in a protest inside moscow's main cathedral the demonstration day punk rock prefer to read russia vladimir putin to media focus around the world. but i would like to reiterate our status which we have expressed from the very start that our defendants did not perpetrate a criminal offense and therefore any verdict of court say for an acquittal but it will be unlawful. the group of being called political prisoners by human rights groups and media outlets. board for many within the music industry staying safe no

more and the red hot chili peppers have all called for the women to be set free but groups associated with the russian orthodox church were outraged by the demonstration and called for the harshest penalties available however those who defend the women say the protest wasn't born out of any religious hatred and yes a letter with this x. obviously had political character which just went side by side with other such political acts didn't stand out so the attempt to proclaim what has happened as abusive actions motivated by religious hatred is ridiculous also guided that political character and the search for the shocking is clearly visible when you look at what women have done previously her stunts have included inviting the media to an orgy in a museum and one member performing a sex act with a frozen chicken in a supermarket because the performance though was a step too far for many in a nation where the majority of people orthodox kristie in search of

a foremans in the country's main cathedral saw some accusing the group of blasphemy however some of russia's most ardent anti government activists who agree the women took things too far also said they shouldn't be punished too harshly and they're doing with us was that they don't deserve it by the way i strongly disapprove of their act i'm old enough to be their dad so i would just spank them properly and let them off and now when they face up to seven years of prison this is going too far afield the call for clemency was repeated by president putin the man who was the target of the protest ever do is to. look i hope the court will rule with a just decision if the bonds let's say defiled a sacred place in israel they would have to cope with some tough guys there are many of them would face difficulties from attempting to leave the country was ready for example they went to the caucuses and defaced a muslim shrine security wouldn't have enough time to protect them from public anger. nevertheless i don't think we should judge them too strictly on the book

they've made some important conclusions themselves anyway the final decision rests with the court. the trial continues here in moscow its public opinion is divided over what punishment if any should be handed down to the three women in the dock peter all over r t moscow and here it out here we have more reaction to the trial online including a plea for leniency from the queen of pop of course madonna this while some are finnish activists show their support with a copycat protest targeting the largest of orthodox cathedral in western europe. also online now just days after a u.s. army veteran goes on a shooting spree at a sikh temple a radical baptist church praises him for carrying out quote god's work first you tell us also on our website.

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you for joining us here on our to today security leaks from the obama administration continue to sponsor an ongoing internal investigation and so according to the u.s. house intelligence committee agencies are now hoping to crack down with harsher punishment for those caught spilling information to the media artie's guy nature can explain. the f.b.i. is on a hard to believe curbs they have interviewed current and former high level government officials from the white house the pentagon the national security agency and the cia all to reveal those who spilled the beans investigation has already cast a distinct chill over press coverage of national security issues as journalists here say agencies declined routine interview requests and refused to provide background briefings on top of that the legislation is in the works in the u.s. congress that would for example allow to strip the government employee of their position in punishment or on off the ride sharing of information with the media so

you have an assault on the first from both the government and the lawmakers former assistant director of the cia's that everybody in the intelligence world agrees never have there been so many high alert level leaks want to ascertain what ministration is being so hard on leakers as this one we're talking about all kinds of leaks leaks about the administration's targeted killings program as it continues to illegally acts to. suspected terrorists abroad or leaks about government agencies sweeping surveillance capabilities that home field bomb administration alone has prosecuted six government officials believe king information to the press more than all of their past administrations combined earlier i spoke with one of them on this great that is once was a senior executive of america's largest intelligence agency and he blew the whistle on fraud and abuse with regards to the agency's secret surveillance program here's what he told me speaking truth to power is very dangerous in today's world power

elites. those in charge they don't like dirty linen being here they don't like the skeletons in the closet being seen. and they not only do they object to it they decide to turn it into a criminal activity. i guess we have to point out that not all leaks are being criminalized because you have a type of information that the government leaks deliberately to manage and control the discourse in the media so to say but any journalist would tell you that it's the on the authorized that really helped reveal a sensitive story to the public otherwise journalists would just have to copy paste and reprint whatever the government decides to release to the press in washington i'm going to check out. life in moscow on real research and still to come for you on the program to communication satellites become dangerous space junk now pose

a potential threat to space so objects off of their rockets fail to deliver them to their intended goal bit plus. there is mold a ball cools in the banking well it says of u.k. based banks stand a chance as they have tumbled around fifteen percent why i'll explain in the business but it's empty it's all to do with a run on money laundering only the now more details about how that. well europe may be facing a tolerance crisis with the far right and immigration rhetoric intensifying but it's not the extreme though in the belgian city of ghent where politicians are being accused of just being too tolerant that's because they're trying to allow a man with mental disabilities to run for office this report to watch these tests. where here and get the city in flanders known for its pretty medieval town center but it's also recently made headlines when a political party put a man with mental disabilities on its candidate list for local elections meet

d.d.a. pelham on the forty one year old candidate of the flemish christian democrats who is hoping to get a seat in gan city council he admits he has difficulties in speaking and writing. yeah i've been active in community work for a living years our party slogan is everyone's included so i want to be given the chance to be counselor to express myself and help people with disabilities. he says he wants to encourage voluntary social work and make the city more accessible to people with handicaps by promoting the use of simple language this is just the single to do people in the end also people with disabilities can run for elections in our community. here in ghent so we can't ignore them you'd be hard pressed to find someone who'd say such people weren't part of society but some see the party's move as inappropriate where public office is concerned raising questions of whether politicians have pushed the envelope too far this time. if

he's physically disabled it's not ridiculous but he has mental disability so that's another question you may have problems with reasoning. i think he's not capable of making decisions for other people i do voluntary work myself with mentally disabled people for them and got a lot of respect for them but they have to realise themselves that they're not able to do everything all the other get residents like frederick a think. it's really nothing more than a publicity stunt and i know it's difficult when you criticize such a nice and good guy but i don't want to criticize him in person i want to criticise is a sporty for using him as a kind of political tool to get media attention in a time where we are close to when the simple elections did you know is well aware of the criticism but as far as he's concerned these are political i spend a lot of energy campaigning the rest is up to voters because he may not this won't

just the r.t.e. ghent indulge him. just a moment on the r.t. world up there for now greece is struggling to curb the flow of illegal immigrants claiming scarce public funds more than six hundred people will be kicked out of the country after the latest crackdown are all part of an ongoing effort to try and save money in any way possible greece is sinking under its own debt but economists are roger bootle believes that leaving the eurozone is the only way the country can save itself that full interview coming your way next hour here on our team greece in my view needs to get out of the year i cannot see any way in which this current policy of austerity is going to bring any relief or slow grinding process of trying to. take. decades to sort of our credit very very bad things possible to imagine a return to economic growth in the current setup by contrast with the euro breaks i can imagine economic growth so far from being

a disaster i think it could be the major step that leads to the restoration of growth in europe. the gyptian prime minister has reportedly been beaten up as he arrived at a funeral service for sixteen security cards killed in sunday's attack on the egypt israel border agents president mohamed morsi did not attend the military funeral because of security concerns. accused the israeli spy agency mossad of carrying out the deadly assault over the weekend israel called the allegations son instead blamed most of the times journalist and believes terrorists are taking advantage of egypt's weak security following its uprising. that was first of all. increased tensions between israel and egypt i think that's one of. the inspectors had in mind and second of all we have to remember that these organizations believe that violence. and justifies all means they believe in the act itself as an

ideological goal to. their religion as they see it when the people responsible decision makers in egypt should be trying to increase cooperation with israel in order to ensure that these kind of homicide terrorists are not able to carry out their plans so very absent opportunities for. countries closer together the islamists and especially if you had these that we're talking about now have been for years. and now what they're doing is taking advantage of the fact that there is an unstable situation in egypt but if you just live as we've seen now across the region egypt syria and all the other countries north africa then what we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately. twenty minutes past the hour moscow time straight to bahrain now to start the yacht's he will tough day that's where the regime demonstrators have continued their protests throughout the

country demanding the release of political prisoners tempers once again flared fresh clashes erupted with police i once saw this man who was injured when his patrol was targeted with petrol bombs on monday security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets trying to break up the ranks. he's ilands been forced to close the main roads on several airports after a volcano erupted in the center of the north island tongariro started admitting ash and rocks into the sky last night covering the ground with a thick layer of dust a number of locals who had to flee their homes to safety but the volcano has been dormant for decades experts are now trying to assess if this could be the beginning of a new activity cycle. in a moment katie with the business for now two communication satellites are now lost in space after a russian rocket failed to place them into orbit or monday experts admit they now pose a threat to other satellites and possibly even the international space station.

reports. the greatest fear now is that the booster and the two satellites that are stuck in an emergency all that could become potentially dangerous space junk flying around the earth the greatest danger could potentially come to the international space station and although ross cosmos has said that no emergency maneuvers are planned for the i assess that hasn't allayed fears of a possible collision has come as an embarrassment to ross cosmos which saw a string of errors in space flights last year who stood with the two communications satellites is now stuck in a lower orbit the chances of those satellites getting to where they're supposed to be is nearly nothing says ross and they're probably full back to worth and burn up . for it as promised over to the r.v. business this week katie good to see you today going to fill us in on the numbers and any market scandals you're aware of last going on today rory it is indeed

a tumultuous session and yes i'm going to get to the figures first of all just to put it all in perspective for us and us is they are really still struggling which direction they want to go in the main topic on the trading floor today is centered around standard chartered which is now jumping around fourteen percent to see the footsie on the dax just now and the both in positive territory this hour marina was following me and saying each hour is different color spectrum as we can see the flip through that is pretty flat really on the dax is over a percent in positive territory and i did mention the bank it's now suspected of hiding tens of thousands of transactions with iran which is something to the u.s. economic functions now american financial regulators they said that the bank has laundered as much as two hundred fifty billion dollars over nearly a decade a standard chartered which denies the allegations faces losing its u.s.

banking license so telling us so much about the biggest bang. in the land areas ben bernanke of the federal reserve chairman he suggested paying more attention to alternative economic indicators rather than the paper which can sometimes most important information that's what he says and he gave an example of the best of the life indexed used by the organization of economic cooperation and development which compares countries based on indicators of quality of life but also you cited the three songs which will track each g.d.p. in one to seventy two in the favor of the gross national happiness is x he said non-conventional indicators could help measure the real state of economic affairs override it without a minus have a look at the traders so repair that the euro dollar got it there is managing to game this out at one twenty four when he was a little bit of optimism there for the common currency also have a look at the brewery you can see it's still pretty much having a mixed session in the day today all right that brings us on to the markets here in

moscow now they did open up some lightly down a lots of the guys that we experience yes and as we can see a change of fortunes with the end of the trading day because both the r.t.s. and the mines that drop around half a percent asian are staying with russia russia second biggest mobile operator megaphone has a once again postponed its loans in the six previously the moved from july to september citing financial turmoil on the markets but now it is mostly newspapers as a company plans to go public in made all for the fairies the same reasons it is the only on traded russian big telecom company who plans to list twenty percent which says aiming for saw million dollars. about cleaning up the arctic then shy away because that's the mission of the russian geographic society which is kicked off an expedition to free the islands in the barents sea from the collected industrial garbage now ahead of the trip russia's president vladimir putin underlined that russia is boosting its activities in the region exactly what other nations are

planning to do as as well. but it has of course for us. greener than you think this is the arctic temperatures this july and top to those in moscow and rising on average twice as fast as i knew where else in the world the record ice melt has made the arctic's vast natural resources easier to get than ever before imo they really want to be horrid off our planet oil and gas reserves and in fact that have been having a war there in contras and even china eager to allay their quota five arctic countries russia norway denmark canada and the us have the right to explore waters up to three hundred seventy kilometers coasts but it's the central pullers zone that may now be up for grabs russia's already owns a vast arctic territory but there are concerns that this may unite the others against moscow's polar ambitions most recently denmark is the last contender to

send an expedition to the pull to developing the arctic according to a civilized manner of behavior and proposed a drilling moratorium in the central pullers zone this year old giant rosneft signed contracts to explore russia's arctic with america's x. and marvel norway's startler and any billions of dollars is already pledged but much more will come when the pool is partitioned and the borders set so the more businesses that come here the quake of its own chart of unforgiving this racial home to manage a political battles will transform into a high tech economic hub that can put a core business r.t. the arctic amazing vs small on the web site the business section altie dot com or a.o.l. back about fifteen minutes on how the thing is the u.s. market is katie thank you. just a moment here on arts and you will get to go to our spotlight with the focus is all

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